2017-03-31 TOEFL: reading inference

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Reading: first section, 60-80 minutes, 3 or 4 passages with 14-15 questions each
	(You have 20 minutes to answer the questions about each passage.)
Question types:
- vocabulary (you should be able to answer from context, without reading the whole text)
- fact (you should be able to answer by skimming for key words or numbers)
- negative fact (you should be able to skim to eliminate incorrect answers)
- inference (you sometimes have to read or at least skim the whole passage)
- reference (you should be able to answer this by looking at a sentence or two before the word)
- purpose (you might need to skim a couple paragraphs or the whole text)
- paraphrase (you should be able to answer this from the single sentence you have to rewrite and maybe the sentence before it)
- sentence insertion (you should be able to answer from that paragraph alone)
- summarize (which sentences express the main ideas of the passage)
- categorize (place sentences into the correct categories, based on the passage)
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DELTA p. 76 - Inference questions - read the passage and answer the two questions in the boxes
How do you konw the other choices are wrong?
1 C
2 D
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p. 80-81 - Take 6 minutes to answer these questions. Then compare your answers with your partner. Explain why you think your partner’s answer is incorrect, if you disagree.
1 B
2 A
3 C
4 C
82-83 - Take 10 minutes to do the same with these questions.
5 B
6 D
7 B
8 B (for this book, “eases anxiety” is supposed to be synonymous with “reduces stress”, or at least it’s closer to reducing stress than reducing depression is)
9 D
10 C
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p. 84 exercise 1.4.B - Take 3 minutes to answer questions 1 and 2.
1 A
2 C
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BREAK
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Handout (Cambridge) 200-201 - Choose the inference(s) that can be made from each sentence (there may be more than one).
1 C
2 B (not D - it’s about restoring villages, not restoring plans)
3 B D
4 A B
5 B C
6 B D
7 A C
8 B (Morphine is unsurpassed, meaning nothing else is better than it.)
p. 202-203 - Underline the sentences or phrases in each passage that could help you make the following inference.
1 “unlike other toads...is nearly voiceless” “as effective as croaking in luring females during the mating season”
2 “abandoned and forgotten...after a devastating earthquake” “have all taken their toll”
3 “medical authorities are skeptical of the treatment”
4 “it lacks the barbules that are needed to lock feathers into a flat vane”
5 “sketches of what they wanted carved” “the master carver, who had dictated what was to be carved”
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p. 204 - Is each inference correct?
1 yes
2 yes
3 no (Correlation does not imply causation.)
4 yes
5 no
6 yes
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Homework: Handout (Cengage) p. 64-66 exercise 3.1